Packer Contract Job Trends in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 440 486
Rank change year-on-year -111 +46 +38
Contract jobs citing Packer 31 29 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.075% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.57% 0.77% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 34
10th Percentile £450 £471 £456
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £630 £509
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +23.77% -18.56%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £584
90th Percentile £684 £743 £926
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £511
% change year-on-year -2.17% +12.63% -18.32%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,484 3,773 4,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.34% 15.54% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,594 3,219
10th Percentile £319 £308 £257
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 39 105
10th Percentile £20.09 £17.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £39.65 £22.60 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +12.56% -50.75%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.27 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +100.00% +6.73% -52.44%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Packer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Packer job vacancy trend in England

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

Packer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -57 12 £650 +13.04% 6
North of England -69 8 £500 -27.27% 1
North East -24 3 £500 -23.08%
Yorkshire -59 3 £500 -31.03%
South West -36 2 £450 -10.00% 5
North West -42 2 £575 -23.33% 1
South East -63 2 £615 +28.66% 1
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £400 -
Packer
UK

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.45%) Confluence
1 2 (6.45%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) AWS
2 15 (48.39%) GitHub
3 14 (45.16%) Azure
4 8 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (19.35%) Azure AKS
5 6 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (16.13%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
8 3 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
8 3 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (6.45%) AWS KMS
9 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (6.45%) IaaS
9 2 (6.45%) OneDrive
9 2 (6.45%) Serverless
10 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
2 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 3 (9.68%) PCoIP
3 2 (6.45%) DHCP
3 2 (6.45%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (6.45%) SSL
3 2 (6.45%) VPN
4 1 (3.23%) HTTP
4 1 (3.23%) Network Security
4 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.23%) Redis
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) GitLab
2 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.90%) Git
4 3 (9.68%) JIRA
5 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
1 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Banking
3 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Senior
3 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Wintel Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Lead
8 1 (3.23%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Wintel Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (9.68%) OpenGL
2 3 (9.68%) Qt
3 1 (3.23%) cloud-init
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
3 1 (3.23%) OpenID
3 1 (3.23%) SAML
3 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) CUDA
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.23%) CMDB
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (64.52%) Linux
2 15 (48.39%) Windows
3 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) DevOps
2 21 (67.74%) CI/CD
3 18 (58.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (45.16%) Agile
5 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (22.58%) Configuration Management
7 6 (19.35%) Observability
8 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
8 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (9.68%) Coaching
10 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (9.68%) GitOps
10 3 (9.68%) High Availability
10 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Automation
10 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
10 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (9.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) PowerShell
2 11 (35.48%) Bash
3 5 (16.13%) C#
3 5 (16.13%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) Groovy
4 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.23%) Bicep
5 1 (3.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (70.97%) SC Cleared
1 22 (70.97%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.23%) CCNA
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) RHCA
4 1 (3.23%) RHCE
4 1 (3.23%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) OpenSCAP
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Docker
2 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.45%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (3.23%) Squid
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (80.65%) Terraform
2 22 (70.97%) Ansible
3 18 (58.06%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.90%) Consul
5 3 (9.68%) Grafana
5 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.45%) Nessus
6 2 (6.45%) SCCM
7 1 (3.23%) Argo
7 1 (3.23%) Puppet
7 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (3.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Dynatrace
2 5 (16.13%) VMware
3 3 (9.68%) NVIDIA
4 2 (6.45%) HP
4 2 (6.45%) Leostream
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.45%) Ping Identity
4 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.45%) Splunk
4 2 (6.45%) Trend Micro
5 1 (3.23%) Ariba
5 1 (3.23%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) Tanium
5 1 (3.23%) Tenable